LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Otaki Mail, Volume 27, 22 October 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr J. Nicholson has sold a portion! of his Manakau farm to Mr C. Rickard. Mr G. Anderson advertises for Saturday next a list,of goods to be sub-mitted-by auction at the Otaki mart. The Otaki-trained Waimatoa has been allotted top weight (9.9) for the Wairarapa Cup. Sweet Tipperary has re- j eoived 7.12. ,

Mr Clement Wragge prediets a particularly dry period from 1919 to 1923, and advises farmers to lay in stocks of lucerne to carry them over tho drought.

Twenty-seven candidates were presented for the musical examinations at Levin on Saturday last (results published in our last issue), and 23 of these succeeded in securing passes. It is notified by advertisement that the clearing sale on aecount- of Mr Latham, Te Horo, advertised to be held on Friday by Messrs Parker and Vincent, has been cancelled.

There’s nothing like good leather! If you want the best of repairs eall on F. Barrett, Dunstan Street, Otaki Railway. Prices low, workmanship) and material guaranteed.—Advt.

Stiles and Matheson’s splendid showing of pretty dress goods will suggest that you purchase requirements there. Special prices make the display doubly interesting. Turn now to Stiles and Matheson’s announcement in this paper.

Wo are now showing our summer footwear in while canvas and buckskin, and a nice range of court shoes in glace and patent leathers. A good selection at less than town prices. Irvine’s Shoe Store, Otaki.—Advt.

An unreserved clearing sale of highclass dairy stock, etc., will take place qfc Hautere Cross to-morrow on behalf of Mr H. Samos and Mr W. W. Westaway. The stock is all of Ike best, while implements, etc., should sell readily.

“It is not intended to introduce licensing legislation this session.” said the Premier in reply to a suggestion that, as the anti-shouting law was purely a war measure, it ought to be repealed. Mr Massey added that he had heard from all over the country that the section was a farce. He had referred the matter to the Crown law officers.

At the Palmerston North Court on Monday, before Mr Stouf, S.M., a middle-aged man, Charles Cockcry, a stableman by occupation, was charged that on or about October 13th lie attempted to procure certain persons— Henry Joseph Lewis and Alfred Mervyn Capp—to murder Thomas Quirke. On the application of tho police accused was remanded to October 2Stk. Bail was refused. ,

Mr A. J. R.-Iskerwood notifies elsewhere that he has taken over the Railway Hotel, and by strict attention to business hopes to secure a fair measure of support. Accommodation will be on modern lines, while only the best of trines, ales, and spirits will 1.0 stocked. The hotel is well situated, being adjacent to the railway station, and is in the midst of good hunting and fishing grounds. Visitors may rely upon every home comfort.

A big social gathering will be held at Te Horo on Friday night to welcome home returned soldiers. This will be the last social of the kind, and the To Horo people are determined to make it a memorable occasion. Elaborate arrangements have been made for the function, and an energetic committee is working hard to provide a splendid evening’s amusement. Doubtless there will be a very large gathering to give the returned boys a hearty welcomehome.

The super-egg has been laid by a. duck in the possession of Mrs G. Stratton, of Kimberley Road, Ohau, who has left half a dozen at the “Chronicle” office for the inspection of anyone interested in enlarging the size of poultry products. The bird responsible for these huge productions—four of which weigh 11b 4oz —is a Pckin-Cayuga cross, and for some time part has been presenting her proud owner with five a week. A curious feature of the eggs is that, they all appear to be doublevolked. —‘ ‘ Chronicle.' ’

As a sequel to the raid on the two-up school at Wanganui about forty men were charged with playing a game of chance in a public place. Practically all the men pleaded guilty. Fine? amounting to £2 were imposed in the majority of cases on those who appeared and £2 10s on those who did not appear. In several of the eases two informations were laid, and in these an extra fine of Ifts was imposed. One young man, who had been previously convieted of a similar offence, was fined S 3. The two men who acted as '.‘ring masters” on the occasions when, police -were watching were each fined £lO-